Course detail

General and Inorganic Chemistry II

FCH-BA_ACH2Acad. year: 2023/2024

Introduction in systematic inorganic chemistry, chemical periodicity, origin and distribution of elements on the Earth. General characteristic of transition and intransition metals, metalloids and non-metals. Hydrogen and its isotopes, types of hydrides. Oxygen, ozone, types and structure of oxides, water, hydrogen peroxide. Alkali metals, hydrides, oxides, peroxides, hyper oxides, ozonides, halogens hydroxides, salts of oxoacids, organometalic and complex compounds. Boron, borides, borans. Aluminium, aluminothermy, binary compounds, hydroxides, salts of oxoacids, organometalic and complex compounds. Carbon, fullerens, graphite, carbides, oxides, oxo, peroxo and thioacids. CN compounds, organometalic compounds. Silicon, silanes, halogen derivates, oxides and oxoacids, silicates and aluminosilicates, siloxans. Germanium, tin and lead. Nitrogen, nitrides, ammonia and ammoniac salts. Phosphorus, oxoacids and their derivates. Sulphur and group of selenium, chalcogens hydrogen compounds. Halogens, halogens hydrogen compounds, types of halogenides. Rare gases and their compounds. Scandium group. Titanium, zirconium, hafnium and their compounds. Vanadium, niobium, tantalum. Chromium, molybdenum and tungsten. Manganese, technetium and rhenium. Iron, cobalt and nickel, complex compounds. Light and hard platinum metals compounds of ruthenium, osmium, rhodium, rhodium, palladium and platinum. Copper, silver and gold. Zinc, cadmium and mercury, organometallic and complex compounds.

Language of instruction

English

Number of ECTS credits

5

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Offered to foreign students

Of all faculties

Entry knowledge

Knowledge of high school chemistry

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Examination is granted upon written and oral final examination.
Attendance of the lectures is voluntary. Every week there is a tutorial day for students of all types of study programs.

Aims

The aim of the class is to inform students about systematic inorganic chemistry. To present summary about the chemical elements and inorganic compounds, their physical and chemical properties, occurrence, preparation, production and utilization.
Basic knowledge of inorganic chemistry required to understand more advanced chemical subjects.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Not applicable.

Recommended reading

Earnshaw, A., Greenwood, N. N.: Chemistry of the Elements. 2nd Ed. Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann, 1997. 1600 p. ISBN 0080379419. Earnshaw, A., Greenwood, N. N.: Chemistry of the Elements. 2nd Ed. Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann, 1997. 1600 p. ISBN 0080379419. (EN)

Elearning

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme BKCP_CHCHTE Bachelor's 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
  • Programme BKCP_AAEFCH Bachelor's 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
  • Programme BPCP_AAEFCH Bachelor's 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
  • Programme BPCP_CHCHTE Bachelor's 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
  • Programme BKCP_CHTM Bachelor's 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
  • Programme BPCP_CHTM Bachelor's 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory

  • Programme BPCP_CHTPO Bachelor's

    specialization CHPL , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    specialization PCH , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    specialization BT , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory

  • Programme BKCP_CHTPO Bachelor's

    specialization PCH , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    specialization BT , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    specialization CHPL , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory

  • Programme BPCP_CHMA Bachelor's 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
  • Programme NPAP_ENVI Master's 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

1. Introduction of periodic table basic principles
2. Hydrogen and water
3. Alkali metals
4. Alkali earth metals
5. Group 13 elements: boron, aluminium, gallium, indium, thallium
6. Carbon
7. Group 14 elements: silicon, germanium, tin, lead
8. Nitrogen
9. Group 15 elements: phosphorus, arsenic, antimony, bismuth
10. Oxygen
11. Group 16 elements: sulfur, selenium, tellurium, polonium
12. Group 17: Halogens; Group 18: Noble gases
13. Transition and inner transition elements

Exercise

13 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

1. General trends in the periodic table of elements
2. Lewis structures and VSEPR of hydrogen compounds
3. Lewis structures and VSEPR of compounds of alkali metals and metals of the 2nd group
4. Lewis structures and VSEPR compounds of elements of the 13th group
5. Lewis structures and VSEPR of carbon compounds
6. Lewis structures and VSEPR compounds of elements of the 14th group
7. Lewis structures and VSEPR of nitrogen compounds
8. Lewis structures and VSEPR of compounds of elements of the 15th group
9. Lewis structures and VSEPR of compounds of elements of the 16th group
10. Lewis structures and VSEPR of halogen compounds
11. Lewis structures and VSEPR of noble gas compounds
12. Lewis structures and VSEPR of transition metal compounds - 1st part
13. Lewis structures and VSEPR of transition metal compounds - 2nd part

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